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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be sent to European universities and the people given a vote. The Belgian report to the U.N. got rather personal at one point in its 382-page, statistics-laden report. It said: "The private life of the Mwami [King] of Urundi left something to be desired when he paid visits to Usumbura [the capital]. Fortunately, his visits are no longer as frequent ... He has been advised to be more careful; time will tell whether he has heeded this advice...
...year-old Cliff Campbell was picked by the U.S. Office of Education's magazine School Life as the answer to a big question: "What Are Good Teachers Like?" And last week, as Dunbar was closing down for a month's summer vacation, 105 of its 118 graduates paid Director Campbell a tribute he liked even better: they got good jobs...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week paid his last respects. Wrote he: "A great lady died the other day-a lady who had caused me much happiness-and much pain. She was my ex-mother-in-law, Eleanor Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints...
...after spending $40 million to support potato prices last year, the department asked farmers not to increase their potato acreage this year. But farmers increased production with better fertilizers, insecticides, irrigation. They felt sure the high support prices would go even higher. By last week the Government had already paid out $17 million for surplus potatoes-and the bulk of the crop is yet to come...
...classic example of the son of wealth who becomes a revolutionist. His inability to cope with the problems of business drove him to search for a new career; his increased taxes, which he believed were greater than any paid in England, gave him a sense of personal grievance; his ability to pay for wine and fireworks for his supporters made him popular; his vanity and his love of display made him malleable in the hands of politicians; his property helped to make the revolution seem respectable, and his essential conservatism made him a valuable check against the radicals...